Don’t make me do this.

Posted by Markus Langenfeld - 05/16/08 at 03:05:44 pm

I’ve been having a lot of problems with Media Temple lately. In a given day there could be multiple short instances of downtime, last month I actually risked losing advertising money because of it. Media Temple is supposed to be one of the best hosting providers there is, I mean they host countless big time designers, bloggers, and corporations. All of a sudden the Grid-Service is becoming a very unreliable product and it’s forcing me to shop around and explore my options.

I’m not totally decided on moving my internet empire just yet, but I’ve been on a few comparison websites to gather reviews for some of the other big names in the industry. One website I have checked out is WebHostingRating.com, they have a list of the top rated web hosting providers along with a massive articles section containing information for everything from windows web hosting to cPanel tutorials. The articles are nice because you can learn about the different options that are important to your web presence, making for an educated decision on your next web host.

Anyways, I might stay where I’m at for now, but I wouldn’t be surprised if I find myself a better deal in the near future.

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  1. dreamhost.

    Comment by tyler — May 16, 2008 #

  2. My blog is hosted on freehostia. How do you think I feel? :P

    Comment by Rodger Benham — May 16, 2008 #

  3. I’ve considered Dreamhost, but I heard they had some kind of billing glitch and ended up overcharging tons of customers…

    Comment by Markus Langenfeld — May 16, 2008 #

  4. thats the only problem i’ve had in the 3 years i’ve been there, and it didn’t even affect me.

    it was a one time deal something really out of the ordinary, where a person went outside the checks and balances and ran a billing report and typed in the wrong year, so everyone got double billed. they obviously refunded everyones money AND any extra charges caused by their mistake, also gave away a free month of hosting or something. (i could be lying about the last part i really don’t remember)

    Comment by tyler — May 17, 2008 #

  5. Hey Mark,

    I’m not sure how familiar with setting up a webserver. If you are, I’d recommend Linode (http://linode.com/). It’s a VPS hosting company with reasonable prices. In my years of using them, I’ve not had problems other then ones I’ve made myself by screwing up my system setup.

    Comment by Josh Erickson — May 18, 2008 #

  6. Nice Josh, I will check them out.

    Comment by Markus Langenfeld — May 18, 2008 #

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